[Elecraft] Query for new DSP features

[David Woolley]

The part at 1:03:00 involves a signal that had a large impulsive 
component, and was treated with a combination of noise blanking and 
noise reduction.  Applying pure noise reduction wasn't going to help. 
You can actually see from the pure noise reduction example they played, 
that they were not comfortable with trying to do pure noise reduction on 
a signal that wasn't easily copyable without it.

More importantly, nowhere from the 46 minutes mark do they describe 
their algorithms, although, as open source code, it will be possible to 
find them.

I would assume that the K3 uses LMS.  The spectral one needs similar but 
greater processing to that needed in the phase shifting proposal.  It 
needs greater, in that the it has to compute the parameters by which to 
multiply the FFT bins on the fly, whereas the phase shifting case only 
needs to compute them when you turn the control knob.  Consequently it 
is subject to the same performance question:  does the K3 hardware 
actually have enough processing power to run the algorithm.  (I assume 
LMS is used because the processing power requirements are rather less.)

I don't know whether it has the power needed.

My description of the general problem of noise reduction actually more 
accurately fits the spectral processing model. I believe LMS is trying 
to achieve a similar effect, but in a more computationally efficient manner.

Pure morse code doesn't actually need complex noise reduction, as simply 
using a narrow filter will do the same thing as a good spectral noise 
reduction algorithm would attempt to achieve.  It can, though, benefit 
from noise blanking.  I say morse code, because a literally CW signal 
can get perfect (Gaussian) noise reduction by using an infinitesimally 
narrow filter.  Actually, for a fair test, they should have also shown 
the result of applying a very narrow filter to the power-line noise example.

Nothing in the part of the talk I listened to addressed the problem of 
distortion caused by the suppression algorithm, in particular the 
non-linearities caused by modifying the parameters on the fly.


On 15/01/2019 02:53, Wes Stewart wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrVDL_-HOds starting at 41 minutes. 
> Particularly at 1 hour 3 minutes.
> 
> On 1/12/2019 9:51 AM, David Woolley wrote:
>> Do you have a reference for an algorithm that will do this?
>